While the media fixate on partisan blame, Russ Vought and a hard-right GOP faction are quietly using the shutdown to sidestep Congress and reshape government.
Every time I come to lemmy.world, I always regret it lol
If this were the explanation, they would surely be aware that they are talking themselves into potentially a concentration camp, or potentially “only” losing their job and career forever and becoming a bunch of Leon Trotskies. Your theory has a certain emotionally satisfying nihilism to it, but it doesn’t actually make sense for understanding the nature of the failures in our government (and ideally being able to react to them constructively in some fashion, in the future.)
Your theory has a certain emotionally-satisfying nihilism to it, but it doesn’t make sense
Damn, I need to remember this phrasing. I might tweak it with fatalism instead of nihilism, but that’s a nice way of capturing much of the cynical defeatism occupying the most active users of this site.
Every time I come to lemmy.world, I always regret it lol
If this were the explanation, they would surely be aware that they are talking themselves into potentially a concentration camp, or potentially “only” losing their job and career forever and becoming a bunch of Leon Trotskies. Your theory has a certain emotionally satisfying nihilism to it, but it doesn’t actually make sense for understanding the nature of the failures in our government (and ideally being able to react to them constructively in some fashion, in the future.)
Damn, I need to remember this phrasing. I might tweak it with fatalism instead of nihilism, but that’s a nice way of capturing much of the cynical defeatism occupying the most active users of this site.